CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

Sometimes your team really is hopeless because you have anywhere from 2 to 4 players that just give up and sit in spawn or are not built correctly for PvP. Some general tips though:

1) Build correctly. You should almost always have a heavy reinforced chest piece. Chest piece provides the most armor, so making it heavy is the most efficient. Conversely, belt and hands provide the least armor (with belts being the least), so light armor pieces should go here. As a rule of thumb, any pieces of heavy should be reinforced, any pieces of medium or light should be impenetrable. You can change these traits at your discretion but generally speaking, this is the way to get the most defense unless you find yourself blocking a lot. Make sure you have 30k or more health, unless you've got a really good reason not to. Sometimes, the best way to get health isn't necessarily to put more points into health; it's to slot more pieces of heavy armor. Make sure you have prismatic enchants on all of your armor. Yes, it's expensive, but it is so much more efficient and stat dense to do this unless you have a really good reason not to.

2) Play around your team. Even if they're really bad and dying over and over, you have to play around them in games where the other team is playing together. Toss them heals, peel for them (i.e., throw out a stun if they're taking pressure), try to combo on their ultimates. Look for the player on your team that has the most kills or is doing the most damage and stick to them like glue.

3) If you're in 8v8s, the power up sigils respawn every 3 minutes. That means that after the first fight, the sigils will usually respawn at about 11:45 remaining in the BG. Keep a mental note of when you picked up a sigil and go back right after 3 minutes to grab it as soon as it respawns. Sigils are incredibly powerful and can help you fight a more coordinated team.

4) Most stuns in the game have a counter and can be blocked or dodged. The only exceptions to this are Streak, Fear (any source), and the Warden Charm class script. DKs fossilize can be dodged, although it is very difficult to do so as it has a very difficult to see animation. PvP is all about learning when to dodge and block. Most of the defense during a fight is not passive defense like resistance, hots, or impen. For good players, the vast majority of their defense comes from rolling, blocking, and properly timed damage shields. Taking 0 damage from dodging is, literally, infinitely better than any amount of resistance. Dodge roll or block cancel your heals.

5) Movement is king. This is something that cannot really be taught, but you need to always position yourself in a way that contribute to winning the fight. Don't back yourself in a corner. Don't retreat back into a wide open space where the enemy team can just pepper you from range while running away. Kite around objects, double back around corners, use Streak if you have it, constantly use your snare removal. If you don't have a snare removal skill, you are throwing.

Thumbless_Bot wrote: »

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It really just takes practice. Start by going into cyro and learning how to not die.

Seriously, learn how to not die there then try bgs.

Build real tanky with a lot of sustain.

Be mobile.

Learn how to react quickly to things such as fossilize, or whatever it's called now.

Learn how to kite.

Learn line of site.

Watch your opponent and their animations.

Learn the sounds certain effects, sets and skills make.

Learn to walk through your enemy. They have to turn their camera around to attack you most of the time.

Get two Heals Over Time slotted... HOTs

Get a good burst heal.

Keep your buffs up.

Have a strong defensive back bar.

Once you learn how to not die then and only then do you stsrt to peel away your defenses and add in more stuff that can kill enemies.

It really is a l2p thing and it reay does take time.

Oh, and hop around a lot. Or don't. This doesn't matter really... maybe a little.

Oh, I almost forgot the single most important thing in the entire game. For the love of God learn how to block.

Seriously, go into a bg with the goal of simply blocking damage. Walk around and wait for enemies to attack you so you can block and learn how that feels. Block ROA. Block ROA.

Did I mention you should block ROA.

Do absolutely nothing in a few BGs but heal, buff and block.

So so soooo many players have no idea how to block.